Mario Arcelli

Mario Ugo Arcelli (21 May 1935 – 18 March 2004) was an Italian economist who at one time was Minister for the Budget in the Italian government. Arcelli was born and raised in Milan, Italy. His family originated from Piacenza. His bond with economic studies started with the degree he got in 1957 from Bocconi University, Milan, being awarded top marks and distinction. In the following years Arcelli was an assistant researcher in the same university. In 1963 he became professor at the University of Trieste, and in 1967 he became full professor in economics. From 1969 to 1973 he took the chair of Economics at the University of Padua, leaving for a one-year visiting period at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in Boston (United States). In 1974 he became full professor of economics at the La Sapienza University in Rome, where he served for about fifteen years, until 1989, and directed the Department of Economics between the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1989 he started teaching at LUISS (then LUISS Guido Carli) university of Rome, becoming chancellor in 1992 and remaining in that position until his retirement in 2002. In October 2003 he was appointed to the honorary post of professor emeritus by the university.